Hans-Jürgen Pitsch

Hans-Jürgen Pitsch (* 1940 ) is a German educator, retired special school principal. D. and university professor. After training as a primary school teacher and special school teacher for the learning disabled , behavioral and mentally handicapped people , he worked in teacher training and held the post of headmaster at schools for the mentally disabled for a total of 22 years . He also took on an advisory role in South Korea . Until 2008 he taught didactics and methodology of teaching mentally disabled students at the University of Luxembourg .

In many of his works, Hans-Jürgen Pitschs refers to the activity theory of the cultural history school of Soviet psychology. The focus is on the appropriation psychology of Pyotr Jakowlewitsch Galperin , the concept of the zone of the next development according to Lev Semjonowitsch Wygotski and the description of human development through the sequence of dominant activities according to Alexei Nikolayevich Leontjew . Activity theory relates Pitsch to Western learning and developmental psychology , for example according to Jean Piaget , Hans Aebli and Winfried Hacker . Against this background, Pitsch extends the development of logical didactics of Georg Feuser and thus continues the materialistic special education Feusers and Wolfgang Jantzens on. On this basis, Pitsch argues for action-oriented teaching in the sense of Heinz Mühl , who suggests a project-oriented approach in teaching children with intellectual disabilities.

Works

• For the development of activities and actions of the mentally handicapped. Athena-Verlag Oberhausen, 2002. ISBN 978-3-89896-136-3
• On the didactics and methodology of teaching with the mentally handicapped. 4. revised and extended edition, Athena-Verlag Oberhausen, 2011. ISBN 978-3-89896-455-5
• On the theory and didactics of the action of the mentally handicapped. 2nd edition, Athena-Verlag Oberhausen, 2005. ISBN 978-3-89896-151-6
• On the method of promoting the ability to act of the mentally handicapped. Athena-Verlag Oberhausen, 2003. ISBN 3-89896-163-X
• With Ingeborg Thümmel: Action in class: on the theory and practice of action-oriented teaching with the mentally handicapped. Athena-Verlag Oberhausen, 2005. ISBN 978-3-89896-237-7
• With Ingeborg Thümmel: Compendium of methods for the funding focus intellectual development. Volume 1: Basic, perceptive, manipulative, representational and playful activity. Athena-Verlag Oberhausen, 2015. ISBN 978-3-89896-588-0
• With Ingeborg Thümmel: Compendium of methods for the funding focus intellectual development. Volume 2: Learning in School. Athena-Verlag Oberhausen, 2015. ISBN 978-3-89896-615-3
• With Ingeborg Thümmel: Compendium of methods for the funding focus intellectual development. Volume 3: Learning in the secondary level II. Athena-Verlag Oberhausen. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89896-633-7
• With Ingeborg Thümmel: Life chances for people with intellectual disabilities in old age. Athena-Verlag Oberhausen 2017. ISBN 978-3-89896-696-2
• With Arthur Limbach-Reich: Learning and memory in students with cognitive disabilities. Verlag Kohlhammer Stuttgart. 2019. ISBN 978-3-17-034709-0

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Pitsch in the catalog of the German National Library